From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] target-i386: guest variable shift by 0 provokes shift by -1
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:56:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53285E88.3060407@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9A08VbLSReW9h+QX7fy=x05FpQ63PqL++DazmS-ar9DQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/18/2014 07:47 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The interesting question is not immediate shifts
> but variable ones. It's trivially easy for the frontend
> to avoid passing out of range immediate values
> and for the backend to screen them out. This
> case is a variable shift TCG op.
Exactly how are you distinguishing between constant and variable shifts? By
how they were issued in the first place? By how they are presented to the backend?
Otherwise I'm not following you.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-18 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-18 12:33 [Qemu-devel] target-i386: guest variable shift by 0 provokes shift by -1 Peter Maydell
2014-03-18 14:20 ` Richard Henderson
2014-03-18 14:25 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-18 14:39 ` Richard Henderson
2014-03-18 14:47 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-18 14:52 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-18 14:56 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2014-03-18 15:01 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-18 15:19 ` Richard Henderson
2014-03-18 16:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
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